Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Jan Čumlivski is a Prague-based graphic designer, book artist, and historian of graphic design. He has won many prizes for his art-books, and teaches at Prague’s Academy of Art, Architecture and Design and Bratislava’s Academy of Fine Arts and Design. His talk will focus on samizdat, the clandestine text-image practice of self-publishing formerly common across communist eastern Europe to subvert Soviet powers.

Sponsored by: In CLAS: Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, European Studies, History, and the Center for African Studies, Text-Image Workshop. And in the College of Art: Graphic Design, School of Art + Art History.